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A linguistic analysis of persuasive language used on Jordanian advertisements in social media

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The current study aims to explore the linguistic persuasive linguistic devices used in Jordanian online advertising discourse. It aims to recognize the most frequent linguistic strategies that affect the buying behavior of Jordanian costumers.
Murad Al Kayed, Mohamad Al-Ajalein, Manal Al-Smadi, Wajed Al Ahmad   +3 more
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Informational features of Fermionic systems [PDF]

Proceedings of Frontiers of Fundamental Physics 14 — PoS(FFP14), 2016
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell, Rachael Goodman‐Williams, Katie Gregory, McKenzie Javorka, Jasmine Engleton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bajji on the Beach: Middle-Class Food Practices in Chennai’s New Beach [PDF]

, 2012
This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and ..
Arabindoo, P
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Information Discriminant Analysis: Feature Extraction with an Information-Theoretic Objective [PDF]

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2007
Using elementary information-theoretic tools, we develop a novel technique for linear transformation from the space of observations into a low-dimensional (feature) subspace for the purpose of classification. The technique is based on a numerical optimization of an information-theoretic objective function, which can be computed analytically.
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Select informative features for recognition [PDF]

2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2011
The state of the art rigid object recognition algorithms are based on the bag of words model, which represents each image in the database as a sparse vector of visual words. We propose a new algorithm to select informative features from images in the database.
Zixuan Wang, Qi Zhao, David Chu, Feng Zhao, Leonidas J. Guibas   +4 more
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Trade Realignments and the Need for Integrated Modeling Research in Latin America's Agri‐Food Sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Emiliano Lopez Barrera
wiley   +1 more source

Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner, Erica N. Browne, Marissa Raymond‐Flesch, Mary Kate Shapley‐ Quinn, Nivedita L. Bhushan, Alondra Jaime‐Aguilar, Carmen Ramirez, Jessica Huante, Daisy Gallardo, Sue Napierala, Megan Comfort, Alexandra M. Minnis   +11 more
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Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

This paper studies the causes and consequences of informality and applies the analysis to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It starts with a discussion on the definition and measures of informality, as well as on the reasons why widespread ...
Loayza, Norman V., Serven, Luis, Sugawara, Naotaka   +2 more
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Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani, Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar, Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source